This Ramadan, relief and hope bump against violence and uncertainty in the new Syria
This Ramadan, Syrians marked the 14th anniversary of the start of their country’s civil war. The conflict began as one of ...
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This Ramadan, relief and hope bump against violence and uncertainty in the new Syria
That, Alawites say now, shouldn’t mean collective ... “They would harass us,” said Ahmed Saad Aldeen, who came to the Umayyad Mosque from the city of Homs. “You go out ...
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From Lebanon refuge, trauma scars Syria's minority Alawites
When he arrived in the town of Masaoudiyeh in northern Lebanon earlier this month, fleeing massacres on Syria's Mediterranean ...
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The Ethnic and Sectarian Hues of Mourning
He delivered a sermon at the Zain al-Abidin mosque in Damascus ... in Sharaa’s Ministry of Defense had vowed to make the Alawites drink from the same bitter cup that Sunnis had endured.
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From Lebanon refuge, trauma scars Syria's minority Alawites
they knew only: 'Alawites, pigs, kill them'," Ali said of ... said from where she now lives alongside scores of others at a mosque in Masaoudiyeh. "People began fleeing and my husband told me ...